Neckties and holders



April 5, 1960 Filed July 5, 1956 E. W. FRANCE NECKTIES AND HOLDERS 2 Shets-Shee% 1 INVENTOR. .EARL W. FRANCE April 5, 1960 E. w. FRANCE 2,931,045

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NECKTIES AND HOLDERS Earl W. France, Carnegie, Pa, assignor to Hedi-Knot, inc.

Application July 3, 1956, erial No. 595,750

2 Claims. (Cl. 2-153) This invention relates to neckties and holders therefor and particularly to a tie and holder which eliminates the need for tying and untying the fabric of the tie.

It is well known that the appearance of the four-inhand tie is affected by the continual tying and untying which is necessary with conventional four-in-hand ties. In addition, it is difiicult to make a neat and good looking knot in the four-in-hand tie. Moreover, the tying of a four-in-hand tie, particularly with the Windsor style knot requires considerable time and effort.

I have invented a tie and a tie holder which eliminates the need for tying and untying and, thereby, the resulting impairment in appearance of the tie. Preferably, I provide a pair of divergent wing portions curved upwardly and rearwardly in a generally V-shape and adapted to slip beneath the ends of a shirt collar. A clip member is fixed to said wing portions and extends rearwardly and downwardly to fit over the neckband of a shirt. A curved panel means is provided between the divergent wings extending rearwardly thereof to form a generally hollow conical portion at the base of the divergent wings. An elongated decorative fabric strip which serves as the tie is arranged on the panel portion with a part of the strip intermediate the ends covering the curved panel. The ends are each passed around one of the divergent wings and over the curved panel beneath the intermediate portion of the strip whereby to simulate the Windsor knot.

A presently preferred embodiment of my invention is explained in detail in the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein,

Figure 1 is an isometric view of a shirt collar with the tie and holder structure of my invention in place;

Figure 2 is a front isometric view of the tie holder of my invention;

Figure 3 is a rear isometric view of the tie holder of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a front isometric view of the tie holder of Figure 2 with a tie according to my invention applied thereon; and

Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 show the sequence of applying the tie of my invention to the tie holder to complete the combination.

Referring to the drawings, I have illustrated a metallic tie holder having a pair of divergent wing portions 11 and 12 curved upwardly and rearwardly in a generally V- shape and adapted to fit beneath the ends of a shirt collar 13. The divergent wings 11 and 12 are connected by a curved body portion 10. Triangularly shaped tabs 14 extend rearwardly from the sides of the wing members 11 and 12 and form with the body portion a generally elliptical hollow conical portion at the base of the divergent wings. A clip member 15 is folded rearwardly at substantially a right angle (see Figs. 23) and up Wardly and downwardly upon itself to form a U-shaped neckband engaging member which is tilted forwardly (see Fig. 3) so that the bend approaches the top edge Patented Apr. 5, 1960 over the neckband of a shirt to retain the assembly in place beneath the collar 13. g

A tie 16 is placed over the body portion 10 and around the divergent wings 11 and 12 in the manner shown in Figures 5 through 8 so as to form a typical Windsor knot 17 as shown in Figure 4. The tie 16 is not removed from the holder in use. The tie is placed on the wearers neck simply by inserting the arms 11 and 12 beneath the collar 13 and sliding the resilient clip member 15 over the neckband of the shirt at the throat. This assembly holds the tie resiliently in place at the throat of the wearer without need for any portion of the fabric surrounding the wearers neck and without need for tying and untying the tie each time it is applied to or removed from the wearers neck.

While I have illustrated and described a present preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that this invention may be otherwise embodied within the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. A necktie holder for use in conjunction with pretied four-in-hand neckties comprising a necktie supporting element formed of planar formable material having an upper generally horizontally disposed edge having oblique legs extending vertically from each end of said edge, side edges converging from each end of said edge in the downwardly and rearwardly direction, and a lower edge generally parallel to said upper edge, tabs extending in opposite directions from said side edges with the free edges of the tabs being spaced apart the plane of said supporting element being curved to form generally a segment of the peripheral surface of a frustum of a right elliptical cone, a spacing member extending rearwardly from said lower edge at substantially a right angle and being of generally planar configuration and being received between said spaced free edges of the tabs and a collar attaching element including a planar bracket of generally U-shape, one leg connected to the spacing member at its end spaced from the tie supporting element at an angle such that the opposite end is spaced from the upper edge a distance less than the length of the spacing member and the other leg is adapted to resiliently engage the neckband of a shirt to maintain the bracket and tie supporting element in contact with the outer surface of a shirt collar band, said U-shaped element extending Vertically from the spacing element a distance substantially equal to the distance between the parallel edges of the tie supporting member whereby said opposite end of one leg and the base of the collar attaching element lie in a common plane which is the plane of the root of the collar wings.

2. A necktie holder as claimed in claim 1 wherein the necktie supporting element is formed from a generally rectangular planar member having the ends of the lower edge bent rearwardly and upwardly from spaced points on opposite sides of the center point of said edge to form a generally frusto conical element converging from the ends of the upper edge to the spaced points on the lower edge and having side edges spaced apart along the edges of the U-shaped bracket.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 982,948 Griesemer Jan. 31, 1911 1,445,611 Crnoev Feb. 13, 1923 1,616,608 Crnoev Feb. 8, 1927 1,730,834 Webber Oct. 8, 1929 FOREIGN PATENTS 617,639 Germany Aug. 22, 1935 292,058 Switzerland Oct. 16, 1953 

